CodeWatcher

06-Apr-2011

Web browser for developers.

With CodeWatcher, do away with the "save" switch to browser" refresh" cycle.

CodeWatcher is a simple developer WebBrowser that automatically reloads its contents whenever a file in the base directory changes. It is the perfect tool if you are building Websites. Just give it a local html file to display and it will scan the folder for changes and reload appropriately.

CodeWatcher realizes whenever you save or rename or delete a file in your project directory, be it CSS, HTML, JPG, PNG, CFG, and automatically reloads your html so you can see the results immediately �" without the cumbersome switch-and-reload more...

What's New

Version 1.0.1:

Added a loading bar to indicate when the app is loading a new site (for slow connections).

Fixed a bug that caused the default font to be in a different size than that of Safari.

Fixed the bug that would cause the app to not work if the sites to be watched contained spaces or non-ascii characters.

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Details

With CodeWatcher, do away with the "save" switch to browser" refresh" cycle.

CodeWatcher is a simple developer WebBrowser that automatically reloads its contents whenever a file in the base directory changes. It is the perfect tool if you are building Websites. Just give it a local html file to display and it will scan the folder for changes and reload appropriately.

CodeWatcher realizes whenever you save or rename or delete a file in your project directory, be it CSS, HTML, JPG, PNG, CFG, and automatically reloads your html so you can see the results immediately �" without the cumbersome switch-and-reload moniker.

Features:

Fullscreen Browsing

Browser window can be always on top

Define exception folders that shouldn't trigger a reload

Set an URL to reload instead of the local path (i.e. localhost:8080)

Create projects for all your development sites

Build-In FireBug Lite (Online version)

History

Version 1.0.1:

Added a loading bar to indicate when the app is loading a new site (for slow connections).

Fixed a bug that caused the default font to be in a different size than that of Safari.

Fixed the bug that would cause the app to not work if the sites to be watched contained spaces or non-ascii characters.